The pilot of the light aircraft which crashed in Co Down last night has been named locally as Hugh McKnight, a 53-year-old retired police officer.

Three men killed in a plane crash were trying to land just miles from their homes, it emerged today.

Children were accused today of deliberately starting a forest fire in a forest park.

A Northern Ireland man died from hospital-acquired infection including the MRSA superbug, a jury found today.

FOUR men were killed in road accidents yesterday, bringing to 24 the number killed in the first four weeks of this year.

Police in the North have named the man who was killed in a road accident in Co Down early this morning.

Northern Ireland Electricity has launched an investigation into the death of a contract worker in Co Down today.

SOME of the worst storms on record lashed the North wreaking havoc on roads and flooding hundreds of homes.

Northern Ireland was today experiencing some of its worst October weather for years, with landslides wreaking havoc on roads, and home-owners erecting flood defences.

Two men accused of a foiled dissident republican bomb plot in Northern Ireland were tonight remanded in custody.

A hillwalker is being treated for a suspected broken ankle and mild hypothermia after being rescued from the Mourne Mountains.

The search for three generations of a family feared drowned in the Irish Sea was today concentrating on an oil slick four miles off the Northern Ireland coast.

Three generations of a family missing at sea were on a final fishing trip before their boat was to be decommissioned, it was revealed today.

Three members of the same family were missing today after a small fishing boat vanished in the Irish Sea.

A man was killed in a bomb explosion in Coleraine, Co Derry, police said today.

Security forces were last night investigating an explosion at a house in flashpoint North Belfast.

Security forces were tonight investigating an explosion at a house in flashpoint North Belfast.

A mine, believed to date back to the Second World War, has become entangled in a fishing boat's net off the north coast.